May
10
2011
The existing menu items are based on respective .desktop files in /opt/kde3/share/apps/systemview. We can edit them, add or delete items globally by playing with these .desktop files. In order to add an item for one user (i.e. locally), we just create a new .desktop file in $HOME/.kde3/share/apps/systemview.
In my case the systemview directory was missing (and thus only systemwide items showed), so I first created it and then a file pointing to my Downloads folder:
# mkdir -pv ~/.kde3/share/apps/systemview
# cat > ~/.kde3/share/apps/systemview/downloads.desktop << "EOF"
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
Path=$HOME/Downloads
Icon=folder_man
Name=Downloads folder
EOF
That's it.
